Mystery part on M37 brush truck

[SOTVEN]

I live in MA. Pretty sure that the town owns it outright just taking awhile to track down all the people connected to it because I'm never really around town.

ANY NEWS YET?

[Deucalion]

Still waiting to hear anything. I don't think anyone that would know about selling it has done anything about it. Small town, things move slow, low priority thing to deal with.

[N1VSM]

What part of MA? I've found that the registry office that you go to will determine the level of the p.i.a. factor. I have some registry handling tips that come from experience with the MA RMV. I'm out in Pittsfield. Drop me a PM if you want.
- Jim

[pwrwagonfire]

FYI, I ran into this truck in my professional capacity...it is US Gov't Property and still on FEPP inventory.

[m37jarhead]

Here's info from my experience with our Arizona county Sheriff's department obtaining surplus military vehicles.
All vehicles were picked up at various DRMO's from Wisconsin, Calif., Utah, New Mexico and Arizona.
All came with official "goverment" documents showing that these vehicles were "surplused" out.
With that document in hand, it was forwarded to Arizona DMV and titled and licensed as a county
Sheriff's vehicle. Of course, being a sheriff's department vehicle, the DMV did not hassle the Sheriff's
department regarding VIN numbers, inspections, etc. All of that was perfectly in order anyway.

Older vehicles are scrapped or surplused out by the county at auction. These included CUCV's, deuces,
5-tons, ambulances, wreckers, tractors and trailers. Most all were used as parts sources to keep
our fleet running. Many, if not most, are a mear shell of the original with anything useable stripped off.
As you might expect, this does NOT include armoured vehicles or anything carrying guns, rockets,
cannons, etc. That's a whole 'nother story.

Rumor has it that equipment surplused by the FED's has to remain the property of the local agency
for "X" number of years before it can be disposed of the the local agency. I have no concrete info.
on that.

With 50 states and 50 sets of rules, it may be a challenge to transfer ownership to a private party.
The local government agency selling a military vehicle SHOULD have the original transfer doucuments
from the DRMO and/or current state license and title on file. But, good luck with that. It wouldn't hurt to ask
for the DRMO paperwork. It may be hidden in some file cabinet......somewhere.

Many on this forum have obtained goverment surplus from DRMO's and state, county and city agencies.
They can chime in on their experiences.

Apologize for the lengthy diatribe here but no work on my m37 today. It's actually RAINING here. Guess
I'll take a picture of the rain and keep it for the grandkids to look at.

The Iola show was a blast.
JB

[pwrwagonfire]

When it comes to FEPP (US Forest Service Fire Equipment Program) the equipment must be returned to the state forestry agency, and officially declared surplus before it can be sold. I know for a fact that the official government transfer, and paper work on this truck exists...and that this truck is part of the FEPP program.

There are however, many other government surplus programs out there for municipalities all with slightly different obligations.

This was one of 2 "Roscomon Equipment Center" modified M-37's given to the Northeast States in the 1970's. The other is in Vermont, and the last I heard is still in use as a parade truck.

Came with a 150 gallon tank and pre-plumbed cab protection sprayers...